Supertwistors, massive superparticles and -symmetry

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/041zbMATH Open1243.81209arXiv0808.2155OpenAlexW3100044267WikidataQ62579658 ScholiaQ62579658MaRDI QIDQ438385FDOQ438385

Authors: José A. De Azcárraga, José M. Izquierdo, Jerzy Lukierski 

Publication date: 31 July 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a D=4 two-twistor lagrangian for a massive particle that incorporates the mass-shell condition in an algebraic way, and extend it to a two-supertwistor model with N=2 supersymmetry and central charge identified with the mass. In the purely supertwistorial picture the two D=4 supertwistors are coupled through a Wess-Zumino term in their fermionic sector. We demonstrate how the kappa-gauge symmetry appears in the purely supertwistorial formulation and reduces by half the fermionic degrees of freedom of the two supertwistors; a formulation of the model in terms of kappa-invariant degrees of freedom is also obtained. We show that the kappa-invariant supertwistor coordinates can be obtained by dimensional (D=6 -> D=4) reduction from a D=6 supertwistor. We derive as well by 6 -> 4 reduction the N=2, D=4 massive superparticle model with Wess-Zumino term introduced in 1982. Finally, we comment on general superparticle models constructed with more than two supertwistors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2155

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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